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“To be "poor in the spirit" is to be willing to abandon anything that might get in the way of your finding God, including your current ways of thinking, viewing the world, and living”

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“When Jesus says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," He does not mean everyone. He means those who feel it- who understand it. Blessed - approved by God - are the people who keenly feel their inadequacies, helplessness, unworthiness, and emptiness. They do not hide these things under self-sufficiency but are honest about them, grieved by them, and driven to seek and put total dependence on the grace of God.”

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Book:The Beatitudes: Livingout The Heart Of Christ
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“Now and then, as I mature and think about myself just a millimeter less, I hope our trip inspired someone to achieve his or her unthinkable. To me, if nothing more ever comes from this journey, I hope that when a child one day achieves his or her dream of becoming a lawyer, professional athlete, etc., they can rightfully say that I had an impact on them. I don't want credit for their accomplishments. I just want someone to say, "That guy made me want to chase my dreams.”

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“The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita
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“The whole course of things being thus entirely changed between us and the ancients, and the moderns wisely sensible of it, we of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method, to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail. For, to enter the palace of learning at the great gate, requires an expense of time and forms; therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back door.”

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Book:A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires
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“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension, free and self-determined beyond all proof. Where reason is indignant, where our nature rebels, where our piety anxiously keeps us away: that is precisely where God loves to be. There he confounds the reason of the reasonable; there he aggravates our nature, our piety—that is where he wants to be, and no one can keep him from it. Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings. God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; he loves the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.”

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Book:God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
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